That's when the train hit a pedestrian, and then the ambulance taking him to the hospital was broadsided by some chick, and both incidents were captured on film.
A MetroRail train struck a Fifth Ward resident in a motorized wheelchair Saturday afternoon, causing minor injuries that sent the man to Memorial Hermann Hospital.The northbound train left Midtown's McGowen Station about 2:30 p.m. when the wheelchair rolled out in front of it, said Metropolitan Transit Authority spokesman Ken Connaughton. Ruben Holmes, of the 4200 block of Quitman, initially declined medical attention but later was brought to the hospital.
Holmes, who had just gotten off a southbound train, "must not have been looking where he was going," Connaughton said. The crosswalk at the northern end of McGowen Station does not have a traffic signal.
The incident is the second involving a pedestrian struck by a light rail train in Houston, and the 30th incident on the Main Street line.